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this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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If you want type safety and no build step you do like svelte did and use jsdoc instead. You can run the typescript type checker on those annotations so if you care about not having a build step you can still have type safety.
its like js but with extra steps WHY NOT USING TS then?
That's litterally less step. It's just a comment above a function. How is that more steps?
I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't mind build step but this is objectively less steps.
In typescript you dont comment before there you see the variable name and that (should be enough) and the type is there...
That sounds like spending a lot of extra effort just to avoid a little up-front effort.
How is it extra effort? It's just a comment instead of inline types. It's not like going from no types to types everywhere.